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15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 2006 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 2006

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: Ray, Johnna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 2006 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 2006

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 13, 2006
Creator: Ray, Johnna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 2006 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 2006

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2006
Creator: Ray, Johnna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2005 Board of Directors] (open access)

[2005 Board of Directors]

A list with the information and addresses for the 2005 Board of Directors, listing their elected officers and directors. The TDNA board officers are President, W. Lawrence Walker, Jr., vice president Jeremy L. Halbreich, treasurer, Bob Carlquist and Chairman of the directors, Donnis Baggett. The TDNA board of directors are, Gary Borders, Charles Moser, Darrell Coleman, Charles A. Spence, Guy Kerr, Doug Toney, Buddy King and Jim Wilson.
Date: October 20, 2006
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 River Corridor Closure Contractor Revegetation and Mitigation Monitoring Report (open access)

2006 River Corridor Closure Contractor Revegetation and Mitigation Monitoring Report

The purpose of this report is to document the status of revegetation projects and natural resources mitigation efforts that have been conducted for remediated waste sites and other activities associated with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act cleanup of National Priorities List waste sites at Hanford. One of the objectives of restoration is the revegetation of remediated waste sites to stabilize the soil and restore the land to native vegetation. The report documents the results of revegetation and mitigation monitoring conducted in 2006 and includes 11 revegetation/restoration projects, one revegetation/mitigation project, and 2 bat habitat mitigation projects.
Date: October 3, 2006
Creator: Johnson, A. L. & Gano, K. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan: Discovering the Solutions to Power and Secure America’s Future (open access)

2006 U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan: Discovering the Solutions to Power and Secure America’s Future

The Department of Energy Organization Act, which created DOE, was enacted in 1977 and DOE officially came into existence in October of that year. That law brought together for the first time, not only most of the government’s energy programs, but also science and technology programs and defense responsibilities that included the design, construction, and testing of nuclear weapons. Over its history, DOE has shifted its emphasis and focus as the energy and security needs of the Nation have changed. Today, DOE stands at the forefront of helping the Nation meet our energy, scientific, environmental, and national security goals. These include developing and deploying new energy technologies, reducing our dependence on foreign energy sources, protecting our nuclear weapons stockpile, and ensuring that America remains competitive in the global marketplace. To help achieve these goals, President Bush has launched two key initiatives: the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) and the Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI). The President launched these initiatives recognizing that science, technology, and engineering hold the answers to many of the critical challenges our world faces. These new initiatives to spur scientific innovation and technology development expand DOE’s continuing support for the competitive energy markets, both domestically and internationally, and of …
Date: October 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2007 Lone Star Ride Calendar (open access)

2007 Lone Star Ride Calendar

The 2007 Lone Star Ride calendar and the 2006 Lone Star Ride report.
Date: October 2, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
7Be(p,gamma)8B S-factor from Ab Initio Wave Functions (open access)

7Be(p,gamma)8B S-factor from Ab Initio Wave Functions

There has been a significant progress in ab initio approaches to the structure of light nuclei. Starting from realistic two- and three-nucleon interactions the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) predicts low-lying levels in p-shell nuclei. It is a challenging task to extend ab initio methods to describe nuclear reactions. We present here a brief overview of the first steps taken toward nuclear reaction applications. In particular, we discuss our calculation of the {sup 7}Be(p,{gamma}){sup 8}B S-factor. We also present our first results of the {sup 3}He({alpha},{gamma}){sup 7}Be S-factor and of the S-factor of the mirror reaction {sup 3}H({alpha},{gamma}){sup 7}Li. The {sup 7}Be(p,{gamma}){sup 8}B and {sup 3}He({alpha},{gamma}){sup 7}Be reactions correspond to the most important uncertainties in solar model predictions of neutrino fluxes.
Date: October 12, 2006
Creator: Navratil, P; Bertulani, C A & Caurier, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
AB 32 Fact Sheet - California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (open access)

AB 32 Fact Sheet - California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Establishes first-in-the-world comprehensive program of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases (GHG).
Date: October 2006
Creator: California Air Resources Board
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs (open access)

Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies is one objective of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS provides funding to states and organizations that provide abstinence-until-marriage education as one approach to address this objective. GAO was asked to describe the oversight of federally funded abstinence-until-marriage education programs. GAO is reporting on (1) efforts by HHS and states to assess the scientific accuracy of materials used in these programs and (2) efforts by HHS, states, and researchers to assess the effectiveness of these programs. GAO reviewed documents and interviewed HHS officials in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) that award grants for these programs."
Date: October 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerating DSMC data extraction. (open access)

Accelerating DSMC data extraction.

In many direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations, the majority of computation time is consumed after the flowfield reaches a steady state. This situation occurs when the desired output quantities are small compared to the background fluctuations. For example, gas flows in many microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have mean speeds more than two orders of magnitude smaller than the thermal speeds of the molecules themselves. The current solution to this problem is to collect sufficient samples to achieve the desired resolution. This can be an arduous process because the error is inversely proportional to the square root of the number of samples so we must, for example, quadruple the samples to cut the error in half. This work is intended to improve this situation by employing more advanced techniques, from fields other than solely statistics, for determining the output quantities. Our strategy centers on exploiting information neglected by current techniques, which collect moments in each cell without regard to one another, values in neighboring cells, nor their evolution in time. Unlike many previous acceleration techniques that modify the method itself, the techniques examined in this work strictly post-process so they may be applied to any DSMC code without affecting its fidelity …
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Gallis, Michail A. & Piekos, Edward Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ACCELERATING POLARIZED PROTONS TO HIGH ENERGY. (open access)

ACCELERATING POLARIZED PROTONS TO HIGH ENERGY.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is designed to provide collisions of high energy polarized protons for the quest of understanding the proton spin structure. Polarized proton collisions at a beam energy of 100 GeV have been achieved in RHIC since 2001. Recently, polarized proton beam was accelerated to 250 GeV in RHIC for the first time. Unlike accelerating unpolarized protons, the challenge for achieving high energy polarized protons is to fight the various mechanisms in an accelerator that can lead to partial or total polarization loss due to the interaction of the spin vector with the magnetic fields. We report on the progress of the RHIC polarized proton program. We also present the strategies of how to preserve the polarization through the entire acceleration chain, i.e. a 200 MeV linear accelerator, the Booster, the AGS and RHIC.
Date: October 2, 2006
Creator: Bai, M.; Ahrens, L.; Alekseev, I. G.; Alessi, J.; Beebe-Wang, J.; Blaskiewicz, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator/Experiment operations - FY 2006 (open access)

Accelerator/Experiment operations - FY 2006

This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the Fermilab accelerator and experiment operations for FY 2006. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2006 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, the MiniBooNE experiments running in the Booster Neutrino Beam in neutrino and antineutrino modes, MINOS using the Main Injector Neutrino Beam (NuMI), and SY 120 activities.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Brice, S.; Conrad, J.; Denisov, D.; Ginther, G.; Holmes, S.; James, C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Accelerator Markup Language and the Universal Accelerator Parser (open access)

The Accelerator Markup Language and the Universal Accelerator Parser

A major obstacle to collaboration on accelerator projects has been the sharing of lattice description files between modeling codes. To address this problem, a lattice description format called Accelerator Markup Language (AML) has been created. AML is based upon the standard eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format; this provides the flexibility for AML to be easily extended to satisfy changing requirements. In conjunction with AML, a software library, called the Universal Accelerator Parser (UAP), is being developed to speed the integration of AML into any program. The UAP is structured to make it relatively straightforward (by giving appropriate specifications) to read and write lattice files in any format. This will allow programs that use the UAP code to read a variety of different file formats. Additionally, this will greatly simplify conversion of files from one format to another. Currently, besides AML, the UAP supports the MAD lattice format.
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: Sagan, D.; Forster, M.; /Cornell U., LNS; Bates, D.A.; /LBL, Berkeley; Wolski, A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Physics Code Web Repository (open access)

Accelerator Physics Code Web Repository

In the framework of the CARE HHH European Network, we have developed a web-based dynamic accelerator-physics code repository. We describe the design, structure and contents of this repository, illustrate its usage, and discuss our future plans, with emphasis on code benchmarking.
Date: October 24, 2006
Creator: Zimmermann, F.; Basset, R.; Bellodi, G.; Benedetto, E.; Dorda, U.; Giovannozzi, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accuracy of CO2 sensors in commercial buildings: a pilotstudy (open access)

Accuracy of CO2 sensors in commercial buildings: a pilotstudy

Carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) sensors are often deployed in commercial buildings to obtain CO{sub 2} data that are used to automatically modulate rates of outdoor air supply. The goal is to keep ventilation rates at or above code requirements, but to also to save energy by avoiding over ventilation relative to code requirements. However, there have been many anecdotal reports of poor CO{sub 2} sensor performance in actual commercial building applications. This study evaluated the accuracy of 44 CO{sub 2} sensors located in nine commercial buildings to determine if CO{sub 2} sensor performance, in practice, is generally acceptable or problematic. CO{sub 2} measurement errors varied widely and were sometimes hundreds of parts per million. Despite its small size, this study provides a strong indication that the accuracy of CO{sub 2} sensors used in commercial buildings is frequently less than is needed to measure peak indoor-outdoor CO{sub 2} concentration differences with less than a 20% error. Thus, we conclude that there is a need for more accurate CO{sub 2} sensors and/or better sensor maintenance or calibration procedures.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Fisk, William J.; Faulkner, David & Sullivan, Douglas P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ACRF Instrumentation Status: New, Current, and Future October 2006 (open access)

ACRF Instrumentation Status: New, Current, and Future October 2006

The purpose of this report is to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility instrumentation status. The report is divided into four sections: (1) new instrumentation in the process of being acquired and deployed, (2) existing instrumentation and progress on improvements or upgrades, (3) proposed future instrumentation, and (4) Small Business Innovation Research instrument development.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Liljegren, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Actinide Targets for Neutron Cross Section Measurements (open access)

Actinide Targets for Neutron Cross Section Measurements

The Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) and the Generation IV Reactor Initiative have demonstrated a lack of detailed neutron cross-sections for certain "minor" actinides, those other than the most common (235U, 238U, and 239Pu). For some closed-fuel-cycle reactor designs more than 50% of reactivity will, at some point, be derived from "minor" actinides that currently have poorly known or in some cases not measured (n,?) and (n,f) cross sections. A program of measurements under AFCI has begun to correct this. One of the initial hurdles has been to produce well-characterized, highly isotopically enriched, and chemically pure actinide targets on thin backings. Using a combination of resurrected techniques and new developments, we have made a series of targets including highly enriched 239Pu, 240Pu, and 242Pu. Thus far, we have electrodeposited these actinide targets. In the future, we plan to study reductive distillation to achieve homogeneous, adherent targets on thin metal foils and polymer backings. As we move forward, separated isotopes become scarcer, and safety concerns become greater. The chemical purification and electodeposition techniques will be described.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Baker, John D. & McGrath, Christopher A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Action Memorandum for General Decommissioning Activities under the Idaho Cleanup Project (open access)

Action Memorandum for General Decommissioning Activities under the Idaho Cleanup Project

This Action Memorandum documents the selected alternative to perform general decommissioning activities at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP). Preparation of this Action Memorandum has been performed in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the "Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986", and in accordance with the "National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan". An engineering evaluation/cost analysis (EE/CA) was prepared and released for public comment and evaluated alternatives to accomplish the decommissioning of excess buildings and structures whose missions havve been completed.
Date: October 26, 2006
Creator: Reno, S. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Activities and Accomplishments in MY 2005/FY 2006 (open access)

Activities and Accomplishments in MY 2005/FY 2006

From vehicle acquisition and credit trading to exemptions and outreach activity, the Annual Report summarizes the State & Alternative Fuel Provider Activity's accomplishments during FY 2004/FY 2005.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Corrosion-Resistant Zr Alloys for High Burnup and Generation IV Applications (open access)

Advanced Corrosion-Resistant Zr Alloys for High Burnup and Generation IV Applications

The objective of this collaboration between four institutions in the US and Korea is to demonstrate a technical basis for the improvement of the corrosion resistance of zirconium-based alloys in more extreme operating environments (such as those present in severe fuel duty,cycles (high burnup, boiling, aggressive chemistry) andto investigate the feasibility (from the point of view of corrosion rate) of using advanced zirconium-based alloys in a supercritical water environment.
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Motta, Arthur; Jeong, Yong Hwan; Comstock, R. J.; Was, G. S. & Kim, Y. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced engineering environment pilot project. (open access)

Advanced engineering environment pilot project.

The Advanced Engineering Environment (AEE) is a concurrent engineering concept that enables real-time process tooling design and analysis, collaborative process flow development, automated document creation, and full process traceability throughout a product's life cycle. The AEE will enable NNSA's Design and Production Agencies to collaborate through a singular integrated process. Sandia National Laboratories and Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) are working together on a prototype AEE pilot project to evaluate PTC's product collaboration tools relative to the needs of the NWC. The primary deliverable for the project is a set of validated criteria for defining a complete commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution to deploy the AEE across the NWC.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Schwegel, Jill; Pomplun, Alan R. & Abernathy, Rusty (Parametric Technology Corporation, Needham, MA)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Power Electronics Interfaces for Distributed Energy Workshop Summary: August 24, 2006, Sacramento, California (open access)

Advanced Power Electronics Interfaces for Distributed Energy Workshop Summary: August 24, 2006, Sacramento, California

The Advanced Power Electronics Interfaces for Distributed Energy Workshop, sponsored by the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research program and organized by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was held Aug. 24, 2006, in Sacramento, Calif. The workshop provided a forum for industry stakeholders to share their knowledge and experience about technologies, manufacturing approaches, markets, and issues in power electronics for a range of distributed energy resources. It focused on the development of advanced power electronic interfaces for distributed energy applications and included discussions of modular power electronics, component manufacturing, and power electronic applications.
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Treanton, B.; Palomo, J.; Kroposki, B. & Thomas, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Test Reactor Capabilities and Future Irradiation Plans (open access)

Advanced Test Reactor Capabilities and Future Irradiation Plans

The Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), located at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), is one of the most versatile operating research reactors in the Untied States. The ATR has a long history of supporting reactor fuel and material research for the US government and other test sponsors. The INL is owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and currently operated by Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA). The ATR is the third generation of test reactors built at the Test Reactor Area, now named the Reactor Technology Complex (RTC), whose mission is to study the effects of intense neutron and gamma radiation on reactor materials and fuels. The current experiments in the ATR are for a variety of customers--US DOE, foreign governments and private researchers, and commercial companies that need neutrons. The ATR has several unique features that enable the reactor to perform diverse simultaneous tests for multiple test sponsors. The ATR has been operating since 1967, and is expected to continue operating for several more decades. The remainder of this paper discusses the ATR design features, testing options, previous experiment programs, future plans for the ATR capabilities and experiments, and some introduction to the INL and DOE's expectations for nuclear research …
Date: October 1, 2006
Creator: Marshall, Frances M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library